I've seen all of these basses at his shop the other day. They all look great. The one up top with the madrone burl looks cool. The main reason he did it this way is that the maple he used wasn't wide enough for a body so the best way to use it is to put a wedge shape piece of wood in to widen it. The contrast between the two woods came out great. He's now working on what I believe he's going to call the signature series based on the new century body style. These will be very custom, multi-laminate instruments with a multilam neck that has a wedge shape of dark wood like walnut and wenge down the middle along with the usual purpleheart. i just saw the first one which was a 7 string and it looked incredible.

Thanks for the great comments, guys! I'm trying to reserve not only the most brilliantly figured tops for the Roscoes that will come through Blueberry Hill, but also try to do as many unique, one-offs as possible. It might be a bit risky, but if you're looking for a true "one-of-a-kind", it's the only way to go!

Also, many of the basses that have been referenced above will more than likely feature the new neck options that Peter Parker mentioned. A couple will have wenge center strips instead of purpleheard, and one or two will probably end up with the new multi-lam neck...see photo below. This is the Bolivian Rosewood/Rosita wedge neck, if you were wondering what the two dark wood species were inbetween the maple. I'm really glad to hear that you guys are digging the new bodies....I really appreciate the feedback.

I believe I was the one that got Keith going on the Wenge idea. About 1-1 1/2 yrs ago, I talked to Keith about having him build me a LG 3000 with a Bubinga top and I wanted a Wenge fb and Wenge strip down the neck instead of the Purpleheart. He liked the idea so much that he actually did go out and purchase the Wenge to try it out but, I ended up not going with the project. I still would love to have a Wenge fb and center strip on one, and actually would love to have a Wenge top to boot.

I talked to Keith about the Wenge idea on the neck and board, and he said he wasn't opposed to it. I decided to go with a different bass instead of having him build me one, but I would love to have one with that combination at some point.

Wow, that's pretty differnet for a Roscoe. Do you think this is a one-off or is Roscoe going to start making multi-piece tops regularly?

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I've seen a few other Roscoes like that over the years, so it's not an entirely new thing. I always just assumed that for those, Keith had run across a killer piece of bookmatched wood that just wasn't quite wide enough for a top...

My LG 3005 that I bought new two years ago and later sold to finance my F Bass had a three pc. Afzelial Burl top. It was very well done with strips of Maple in betweeen the middle strip for the same reason of not enough wood to do a two pc. I thought it looked fantastic!! Here is a link to pictures of it: http://community.webshots.com/user/pistoleroace

By the way, that Quilt Maple top in the picture above is by far the best looking Quilt I have ever seen.